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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has spent tens of millions of American taxpayers on a number of shocking expenditures.
USAID was founded in 1961 to provide money by Americans to help countries to develop abroad.
However, the agency is closed because Donald Trump and Elon Musk have discovered that the help pronounced abroad often does not complete core missions, such as expanding education and improving the infrastructure.
'You actually have to get rid of the whole thing. It is irreparable, “said Musk of USAID on Monday. “We close it.”
Now Musk and officials from his Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) are ready to resolve the agency and roll it in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, an idea with which the CEO of Tesla says that Trump is on board.
Just after his appointment, Trump and State Secretary Marco Rubio implemented a 90-day freezing of most foreign aid expenditure to give the new administration time to assess where the budget of USAID $ 30 billion for 2025 is used.
Rubio announced on Monday that he is now the acting director of USAID.
But some Republicans have been sounding alarm on USAID for weeks and say that the agency is more focused on promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (dei) than diplomacy.
And some USAID vouchers show it. Dailymail.com breaks some of the most shocking ways in which the Bureau has spent American tax money.
Huis Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast says he supports the potential plan that moves USAID to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
One of the big ticket items that will no longer receive our financing is a pro LGBTQ group in Serbia through a group called 'Grupa Izadji', which translates into English into 'Group Come Out' in English
This Serbian Pro-LGBTQ group received millions of dollars a year from USAID to expand employment in Serbia for the gay community. The money that flows to this group is frozen by Trump
HIV research into transgender people
The Wits Health Consortium, a South African research facility that studies the transfer of HIV among sex workers and transgender people, has received $ 30 million from USAID since 2018, according to federal data.
The South African research agency received a total of $ 38 million dollars, but the final $ 8 million to be allocated can be reduced after Trump's foreign Aid Review.
“HIV -epidemic control in South Africa runs on the success of providing suitable services for important populations, including sex workers (SWS), their customers and transgender (TG) people,” the prize says.
According to the federal vouchers, the prize was awarded to develop a model for providing accessible clinical interventions [sex workers]. '
Millions to Covid Lab in China
The White Coat Waste Project, an anti-animal experimental group, also discovered that USAID funded $ 38 million in subsidies that eventually went to the same lab where COVID-19 is supposed to have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Serbian LGBTQ group
Another large ticket item that will no longer receive American financing is a Pro-LGBTQ group in Serbia through a group called 'Grupa Izadji', which translates into 'Group Come Out' in English.
This NGO received $ 1.5 million from Biden's administration to promote 'Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities by promoting the economic empowerment of and opportunities for LGBTQI+ people in Serbia'.
According to the subsidy, the Serbian group will promote an environment that increases the employment potential for LGBTQI+ people, extends opportunities for LGBTQI+ entrepreneurs and reduces discrimination in the workplace. '
Drag Queens attends the Rupaul's Dragcon UK 2025 in the Excel Center in London, Great -Britain, January 10, 2025. The US Department of Foreign Affairs will no longer finance dei projects such as Colombian transgender operas or Peruvian trans -strip books, Mast said at DailyMail.com
Taliban hunters walk as they shoot in the air to spread Afghan female protesters. This week, a Bombshell report emphasized how Biden's State Department gave $ 15 million to the Taliban for contraceptives after the group forbade the products
However, Trump's Foreign Aid Freeze has cut off money from flows to 'Grupa Izadji', which was expected to be financed until the end of FY 2025.
Electric vehicles in Vietnam
Another of these expensive foreign aid funds that have been approved under the Biden administration has awarded $ 2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam.
Since the enormous investment of American taxpayers Dollars, according to the USAID website, at least one battery station has been built, avoiding a total of 260 liters of gas.
An average semi-truck contains approximately, for comparison, has approximately 130 liters of gas.
Other striking USAID initiatives include a documentary that emphasizes the efforts of the agency that support the first transgender health care clinic in India.
Transzorg clinics
The agency also helped with opening TransCare Clinic, an operation that has been established to tackle 'ongoing gaps in transgender health care in Vietnam', according to a press release from USAID in September 2024.
LGBTQ initiatives worldwide
USAID established an LGBTQI+ policy in 2023 to help promote non -heterosexual objectives around the world.
The policy 'promotes the dedication of USAID to support protection, inclusion and human rights for everyone, so that LGBTQI+ individuals are able to live with dignity and free of all forms of violence, discrimination, stigma and criminalization,' a memo that it explained Program announces.
In addition to USAID, other initiatives financed by the taxpayer also pulled the eyes of GOP legislators who want to reduce the necessary programs or do not earn recipients of federal aid programs.
Operas in Colombia
For example, the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs approved $ 25,000 for an opera in Columbia to increase 'transgender representation' in art. In addition to government financing, the group also received $ 22,000 in private financing.
'So $ 47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. That was a real one, 'House chairman of the Foreign Affairs Huis Brian Mast unveiled last week at DailyMail.com.
“Let's look, there was a transgender comic book, we try to get the actual comic book in Peru,” he went on. “And I heard it is fairly risky.”
Peruvian trans -strip books
The Peruvian Trans Comic Book program received $ 32,000 among the former State Secretary Antony, according to federal documents.
Efforts to expand 'atheism' abroad
Mast has also shared how the US sent $ 500,000 to expand atheism in Nepal.
